Karl H. Hörning

Karl Heinz Hörning (born October 19, 1938 in Heidelberg ) is a German sociologist and emeritus professor of sociology at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen . His academic focus is on everyday sociology, sociology of culture and technology , and theory of social practices.

Life

Hörning first studied economics , then sociology and ethnology at the universities of Heidelberg , Munich and Mannheim . In 1966 he received his doctorate in Mannheim as Dr. rer. pole. After a year as a postdoc at Harvard University , he became an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo , was a visiting researcher at the University of Ghana in Accra and then went to the Ruhr University Bochum , where he completed his habilitation in 1972 . From 1973 to 1979 he was full professor at the University of Kassel and from 1980 to 2004 director of the Institute for Sociology at RWTH Aachen University. He was visiting professor at Columbia University in New York , at the TU Vienna and at the University of Klagenfurt .

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Hörning's scientific work initially focused on the critical problems of power and social inequality in various processes of social modernization. Then he became increasingly concerned with the effects of new technologies on the activities of workers and employees. This resulted in his interest in the diverse forms and styles of dealing with technology in everyday life. This examination of technology in everyday life led him to develop a cultural sociological technology theory, which he extended to the fundamental question of the power of things in social life. Hörning repeatedly emphasizes the importance of practical knowledge that develops in everyday involvement with things and thus contributes to creative and independent ways of dealing with things.

Fonts (selection)

• Practice and aesthetics. The thing in the crosshairs of social and cultural practices , pp. 29–48 in: Stephan Moebius and Sophia Prinz (eds.): The design of society. On the cultural sociology of design. transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1483-1 .
• with Julia Reuter (Ed.): Doing Culture. New positions on the relationship between culture and social practice. transcript, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89942-243-0 .
• Everyday experts. The rediscovery of practical knowledge. Velbrück Wissenschaft, Weilerswist 2001, ISBN 3-934730-33-7 .
• with Rainer Winter (Ed.): Unruly Cultures. Cultural Studies as a Challenge. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-29023-1 .
• with Karin Dollhausen: Metamorphoses of Technology. The change in the shape of the computer in organizational communication. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1997, ISBN 3-531-13005-6 .
• with Daniela Ahrens and Anette Gerhard: Time practices. Fields of experimentation in the late modern era. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-28935-7 .
• with Anette Gerhard and Matthias Michailow: Time pioneers. Flexible working hours-new lifestyle. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-518-28509-2 .
• Time pioneers. Flexible working time and new lifestyles. Polity Press, Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-7456-1076-5 .
• with Heinrich Bücker-Gärtner: employees in a large company. Loyalty and control in organizational and technical change. Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-432-92961-7 .
• as editor: The "new" worker. On the change in social class structures. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1971, ISBN 3-436-01423-0 .
• Secondary Modernization: Societal Changes of Newly Developing Countries-A Theoretical Essay in Comparative Sociology. University of Denver, Denver, Col. 1970. (Monograph Series in World Affairs, Vol.7)

Web links

• Website by Karl H. Hörning