Karl-Werner Brand

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Karl-Werner Brand (* 1944 in Niederaschau ) is a German environmental sociologist .

Life

Brand studied sociology from 1967 to 1972 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he obtained his diploma. In 1977 he did his doctorate under Kurt Sontheimer with a thesis on the history of political theory. From 1979 to 1985 he was academic advisor at the (then) Institute for Social Sciences at the Technical University of Munich and during this time, together with Dieter Rucht , he co-founded German research on “ new social movements ”. His habilitation thesis focused on the historical comparison of these movements with earlier phases of mobilization of the environmental, women's, peace and alternative movements in western industrialized countries. From 1990 he was an adjunct professor of sociology at the Technical University of Munich, where he taught general and political sociology, environmental, planning, consumer and agricultural sociology.

In the 1990s the focus of his work shifted. Together with Ulrich Beck , he founded what is now the Environmental Sociology Section of the German Society for Sociology in 1993 and was its spokesperson for many years. In addition to various visiting professorships in Darmstadt, Munich, Erlangen, Leipzig and Vienna, he established the research focus "Society, Environment and Sustainable Development" at the Munich Project Group for Social Research (MPS), which he headed until the end of 2005. Since 2008 he has been working on a freelance basis in environmental, sustainability and transformation research.

Fonts (selection)

  • The socio-ecological transformation of the world. A manual . Frankfurt / New York: Campus, 2017 (Ed.).
  • Environmental sociology. Lines of development, basic concepts and explanatory models . Weinheim: Beltz-Juventa, 2014.
  • The new dynamism of the organic market: Consequences of the agricultural turnaround in the areas of agriculture, processing, trade, consumption and nutrition communication . Munich: Oekom, 2006 (ed.).
  • From the agricultural turnaround to the consumption turnaround? The chain perspective . Munich: Oekom, 2006 (ed.).
  • Sustainability policy. Requirements, problems, opportunities - a critical discussion . Berlin: edition sigma, 2002.
  • Society and nature. Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology . 'Sociology and Ecology' series, Vol. 2. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1998.
  • Sustainable development. A challenge to sociology . Series 'Sociology and Ecology', Vol. 1. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1997.
  • Departure into a different society. New social movements in the Federal Republic (updated new edition). Frankfurt: Campus, 1986 (together with Detlev Büsser and Dieter Rucht).
  • New social movements in Western Europe and the USA. Frankfurt: Campus, 1985.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.src-brand.de
personal data
SURNAME Brand, Karl-Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German environmental sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederaschau