Karl Otto Hondrich

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Karl Otto Hondrich

Karl Otto Hondrich (born September 1, 1937 in Andernach ; † January 16, 2007 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German sociologist .

Life

Hondrich studied economics , political science and sociology in Frankfurt am Main , Berlin , Paris and Cologne . After a postdoc at the University of California at Berkeley, he taught for two years as a lecturer at the University of Kabul in Kabul, Afghanistan. In 1962, Hondrich received his doctorate from René König in Cologne on the ideologies of interest groups , and in 1972 he completed his habilitation in sociology.

From 1972 Karl Otto Hondrich was Professor of Sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main at the Institute for Social and Political Analysis. On July 14, 2005, he gave his farewell lecture there . Hondrich was a co-founder of the Club of Quebec .

Karl Otto Hondrich succumbed to cancer on January 16, 2007.

meaning

His essays in the FAZ , NZZ , im Spiegel , in Die Welt and in the SZ gave sociology a voice in the German-speaking public.

Act

In laying the foundations of sociology, he reduces the recurring principles of the social to five elementary, dialectical social processes. These are independent of the biological constitution of the human being, because they come from the social constitution. One or more of these processes can be found in every social process.

Reply
One cannot not reply. Also no reply is a reply, namely none. The dialectic of this process is that in every give, take and return there is also a giving back or a further reply.
Values
By bringing one thing forward, another thing is automatically reset. Any reciprocity is also based on a score. The preference is always placed on one's own first; the preference for the familiar and one's own culture.
share
Each division is automatically a division. If opinions and feelings are shared, it is a consensus, feelings and opinions are not shared a dissent. Sharing an opinion with one person automatically means not sharing an opinion with another person.
Recovery / hide
With everything that is recovered, revealed or revealed, something else becomes invisible or hidden again. Hiding cannot be avoided, as time and space forbid us to tell everyone anything.
Determine
This process represents life in the dimension of time. The future and the past cannot be determined. Only in the small moment of the present can we determine individually or collectively. Any determination can lead to unforeseen consequences that can no longer be determined.

He also understood the principle of democracy as the enforcement of the rights of the locals against “foreigners”. He justified this view with the concern that a silence on this relationship of rights would ultimately damage democracy. He expressed this attitude as follows:

"As long as democratic politics is based on majority decisions, it must give the majority the security that they will keep the reins in their hands, that they will remain a majority despite immigration and that their collective feelings, interests and values ​​will take precedence."

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credentials

  1. ^ Giesen, Bernhard: Ruthless in the best sense of the word: Voice of German sociology: Zum Tod von Karl Otto Hondrich , SZ from 20./21. January 2007, p. 17.
  2. ^ Jäger, Lorenz: Der Skeptiker - On the death of the sociologist Karl Otto Hondrich , FAZ from January 19, 2007, p. Xx.

Fonts (selection)

  • Interest group ideologies , 1962
  • Codetermination in Europe , 1970
  • Economic development, social conflicts and political freedoms , 1970
  • Democratization and Achievement Society , 1972
  • Theory of domination , 1973
  • Human needs and social control , 1975
  • Needs and Society , (distance learning social studies course), 1975
  • Comparison of theories in the social sciences , 1978
  • Foreigners in the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland (with H.-J. Hoffmann-Nowotny), 1981
  • Social differentiation , 1982
  • Needs in Change (as ed. With R. Vollmer), 1983
  • A performance society crisis? (Ed. With J. Schumacher), 1988
  • War teacher , 1992
  • Solidarity in modern society , 1992
  • Recent Social Trends in West Germany , 1992
  • Employer West - Employee East , 1993
  • Der Neue Mensch , Suhrkamp-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2001, ISBN 3-518-12287-8 .
  • War again , Suhrkamp-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2002, ISBN 3-518-12297-5 .
  • Revelation and indignation , Suhrkamp-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2002, ISBN 3-518-12270-3 .
  • Love in times of global society , Suhrkamp-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2004, ISBN 3-518-12313-0 .
  • Less is more: Why the decline in the birth rate is a godsend for our society , Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M./New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38270-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hondrich, Karl Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Then after
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2007
Place of death Frankfurt am Main