Kai-Uwe Hellmann

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Kai-Uwe Hellmann (born February 17, 1962 in Walsrode ) is a German sociologist and consumer researcher .

Life

Hellmann grew up in Darmstadt, Hamburg and Baden-Baden. From 1982 to 1989 he studied philosophy and political science in Hamburg, Tübingen, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. From 1994 to 1995 he held a teaching position at the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences . In 1995 he received his degree in sociology from the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on systems theory and new social movements. Identity problems in the risk society for Dr. phil. PhD.

He then taught at the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences and the University of Leipzig . In 2003 he completed his habilitation in sociology at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg with a thesis on the sociology of the brand . From 2003 to 2006 he was a professor at the University of Essen and the University of Leipzig. In 2006 he founded the Institute for Consumer and Brand Research (IKM) in Berlin. In 2007, he completed his habilitation and private lectureship at the Institute for Sociology at the Technical University of Berlin . In 2010 he took on a substitute professorship at the Chair of Sociology at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg. As part of an event agency , he develops and accompanies bar camps , for example on corporate social responsibility (CSR).

His main research interests include a. Economic and consumer sociology as well as social theory . He has published numerous articles on consumer and brand research. He is also the editor of the consumer sociology and mass culture series at Springer VS together with Dominik Schrage . Hellmann is a member of the working group "Economic Philosophy and Ethics" of the German Society for Philosophy . Thanks to his thesis of the disappearance of manifest functional differentiations and an increasing "hybridization process" in the face of digitization , he is also mentioned as a systems theorist .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Systems Theory and New Social Movements. Identity problems in the risk society . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-531-12781-0 .
  • Brand sociology . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-29279-X .
  • Fetishes of consumption. Studies on the sociology of brands (= consumer sociology and mass culture ). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-16933-0 .
  • The consumption of society. Studies on the sociology of consumption (= consumer sociology and mass culture ). Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-02892-3 .
  • With Cornelia Fedtke, Jan Hörmann: Migration and the military. On the integration of German soldiers with a migration background in the Bundeswehr . Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-937885-72-8 .

Editorships

  • With Ansgar Klein, Ingo Braun, Christiane Schroeder: Art, symbolism and politics. The wrapping of the Reichstag as food for thought . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1995, ISBN 3-8100-1507-5 .
  • With Arne Klein: “Infinite widths ...” - Star Trek between entertainment and utopia . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-13579-6 .
  • Paradigms of Movement Research. Emergence and development of new social movements and right-wing extremism . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen u. a. 1998, ISBN 3-531-13250-4 .
  • With Rainer Schmalz-Bruns : Theory of Politics. Niklas Luhmann's political sociology . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-29183-1 .
  • With Karsten Fischer , Harald Bluhm : The system of politics. Niklas Luhmann's political theory . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-531-13692-5 .
  • With Dominik Schrage: consumption of advertising. For the production and reception of meaning in commercial culture (= consumer sociology and mass culture ). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4203-X .
  • With Dominik Schrage: The management of the customers. Studies on the sociology of shopping . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14571-1 .
  • With Rüdiger Pichler: Expansion of the brand zone. Interdisciplinary approaches to research into branding (= consumer sociology and mass culture ). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14746-3 .
  • With Guido Zurstiege: Spaces of Consumption. About the functional change of space in the age of consumerism . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15203-5 .
  • With Birgit Blättel-Mink: Prosumer revisited. On the topicality of a debate (= consumer sociology and mass culture ). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-16935-4 .
  • With Thorsten Raabe: communalization in the Volkswagen world. Contributions to brand community research (= consumer sociology and mass culture ). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17899-8 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kai-Uwe Hellmann ( memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at the Helmut Schmidt University, accessed on August 13, 2014.
  2. ↑ Our way of working. Who are Feldmann & Hellmann? In: Feldmann & Hellmann Barcamp Organization. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
  3. ↑ team. In: CSRcamp.de (event website). Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
  4. ^ Consumer sociology and mass culture , Springer VS, accessed on November 1, 2014.
  5. ^ List of members of the Working Group on Economic Philosophy and Ethics. German Society for Philosophy eV, accessed on June 18, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Gerald Wagner: Niklas Luhmanns actuality: Does the computer make society invisible? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. May 7, 2018, accessed June 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hellmann, Kai-Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and consumer researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Walsrode