Klaus Dörre

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Klaus Dörre

Klaus Dörre (born July 31, 1957 in Volkmarsen - Külte ) is a German sociologist .

Life

Dörre studied political science, sociology, economic and social history and economics at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1976 to 1982 , where he received his doctorate in 1992. From 2001 to 2006 he was managing director of the research institute for work, education and participation at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Dörre completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen in 2002 , and then worked there as a private lecturer . In 2004 Dörre was offered a professorship at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . Since 2005 he has been professor of work, industrial and economic sociology there .

In 2009 Dörre initiated the Jena Center for Interdisciplinary Social Research and co-founded it on December 3, 2009. He was the center's spokesman for three years. Dörre resigned from this position to join the research group “Landnahme, Acceleration, Activation. Dynamism and (de-) stabilization of modern growth societies ”. Together with Hartmut Rosa and Stephan Lessenich , Dörre had successfully applied for this institute to the German Research Foundation for a limited period in 2011. From 2011 to 2012 and since 2014 Dörre has been the managing director of this coordinated major project.

In 2008 Dörre and Stephan Lessenich organized the 34th regular congress of the German Society for Sociology (DGS), which discussed the topic of "Uncertain times: challenges of social transformation". In September 2019, Dörre, together with Hartmut Rosa and the DGS board, invited to the conference "Great Transformation: The Future of Modern Societies" in Jena. Around 1,500 scientists took part in this regional conference.

Since 2018 Dörre and Brigitte Aulenbacher have been the publisher of Global Dialogue - a publication by the International Sociological Association (ISA) that appears in 17 languages. Dörre has been co-editor of the Berlin Journal for Sociology (BJS) since 2018 .

Dörres was visiting professor at the University of Coimbra , further research stays took him to the universities of Siena and Johannesburg, among others . He is a permanent fellow of the Society, Work & Politics Institute (SWOP) in Johannesburg. In 2018 he gave several lectures at the CLACSO conference in Buenos Aires. His work area has been an official member of CLACSO since 2020. In December 2019 Dörre gave the Poulantzas Lecture in Athens.

The independent Dörre has already been elected twice in the Federal Assembly that elects the German Federal President . He was named by the Thuringian LEFT . In an interview he stated that in 2010 in the third ballot - contrary to the opinion of the parliamentary group - he voted for Joachim Gauck , but did not vote for him in 2012. In 2019 Dörre was involved in the protests against the election of a prime minister with votes from the AfD . Dörre initiated an appeal calling for Thomas Kemmerich to resign and for immediate new elections in Thuringia .

Memberships

Dörre is a founding member of the Solidarity Modern Institute . He is also a member of Attac's scientific advisory board and the advisory board of the scientific open access journal Momentum Quarterly, which was founded in 2012 . Since 2018 he has been one of the co-editors of the Berlin Journal for Sociology . Together with Stephan Lessenich , he is the editor of “International Labor Studies” at Campus and one of the editors of “Global Dialogue”, the “Magazin of the International Sociological Association”.

Research priorities / theoretical assumptions / empirical findings

Dörre deals with the topics of land grabbing , precariousness , financial market or financial market capitalism , the “Jena power resource approach” and “public sociology ”.

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Land grab: Dörre has been grappling with the concept of land grab for a long time. The "land acquisition theorem" developed by Dörre aims at the analysis of the expansive dynamics of the capitalist economy and its structural growth constraints. Land grab says that capitalism cannot reproduce itself solely on its own foundations. Dörre asks about the socio-economic as well as the political, cultural and ideological causes of capitalist expansionism . From a theoretical historical point of view, the concept of land grabbing goes back to the explanations about the original accumulation , an approach that Karl Marx developed in the first volume of Das Kapital . Subsequently, the land acquisition concept was further developed, in particular by Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt . In the recent past, the term has been taken up by David Harvey , among others , who describes the capitalist development dynamics in his work as accumulation through expropriation . Based on these theoretical precursors, Dörre assumes that the capitalist formation can never reproduce on its own basis and is therefore dependent on the continuous occupation of an existing, non-capitalist “outside”. According to Dörre, not only geographical areas, but in principle all socio-economically relevant spheres can become a “land” that can be appropriated. Land is a synonym not only for territories, but also for modes of production and life as well as stocks of knowledge that are not or not yet subject to the capitalist exchange of goods. Historically, different types of capitalist land seizures can be identified according to Dörre. While the conquest cycle of the Fordist era was generally characterized by market-limiting politics, welfare state reforms and the institutionalization of wage-earning power, a countermovement followed the crisis of Fordism from the mid-1970s. Dörre referred to this change to a post-Fordist land acquisition cycle as the “finance capitalist land acquisition of the social”.

Precariousness: Dörre describes precariousness as the return of social insecurity, which has emerged in the working world of rich societies since the 1980s and which can affect working, employment and living conditions equally. According to him, an employment relationship is considered precarious “if it is not permanently above a cultural minimum that is defined by society and therefore in terms of development in work, social appreciation and recognition, integration in social networks, political participation opportunities and opportunities Permanently discriminated against for longer-term life planning. In advanced capitalisms, precariousness means that employees, due to their work and its contractual embedding, fall well below the welfare state protection and integration level that social majorities define as the standard. In such a case, employment relationships and / or work activities can also be subjectively associated with loss of meaning, participation and recognition deficits and planning uncertainty ”. Based on the zone model of the French sociologist Robert Castel , Dörre has developed a typology that also depicts the subjective handling of insecure employment. Dörre describes the German job miracle of the 2010s as a transition to a "precarious full-time employment society" in which mass unemployment is made to disappear through an increase in precarious employment. According to Dörre, precarization brings about a peculiar stabilization of what are actually unstable social conditions. It acts as a system of domination and control that also disciplines protected core workforce.

Financial market or financial capitalism: Dörre assumes that international financial markets have had an increasing influence on corporate management and industrial relations over the past few decades. Following the sociologist Paul Windolf and the economist Michel Aglietta, he understands financial market capitalism as a regime of accumulation and production that is shaped by special institutions, actors and transfer mechanisms. Following Windolf, Dörre assumes that the financial markets are “efficient machines for information processing” that continuously provide market participants with information on profitable investment opportunities. In his work, Dörre shows how the transition to shareholder value management is changing corporate governance and organized labor relationships. A central driving force of the capitalist dynamic for a long period of time, at the latest since the world financial crisis of 2007-2009 the limits of the finance capitalist accumulation and production regime have become apparent. According to Dörre, financial capitalist land grabbing means the shaking of the basic self-stabilization mechanisms of capitalist societies, which include the innovation and credit system, organized labor relations, paid and unpaid care activities, and the regulation of metabolism with nature.

Jena power resources approach: As part of his work and industrial sociology research, Dörre deals with the analysis of organized work relationships and the strategic ability of trade unions to act. The “Strategic Unionism Working Group”, which was launched in 2006 at the Dörres work area, resulted in work that has become known as the “Jena Power Resource Approach”. Following the “Labor Revitalization Studies”, Dörre's research group deals with the sources of wage labor power. A distinction is made between structural power, organizational power, institutional power and social power of wage earners. The union's ability to assert itself largely depends on its ability to use the various sources of wage-earning power effectively. With a view to the resources of the actors, the Jena power resource approach also offers practitioners an aid to improve the trade union strategy ability.

Public sociology: Since the exchange between scientific knowledge and public debates is made more difficult by the increasing differentiation between science and society, Dörre advocates the project of a "Public Sociology". With this project, Dörre follows on from the work of the American sociologist Michael Burawoy , who already drew attention to the need for a public sociology at the beginning of the millennium. Public sociology assumes professional, applied, and traditional critical sociology, but adds something new to it. The task of a public sociology is to bring sociology into a conversation with suitable publics. It is an attempt to put the interactions between scientists and the practice of social actors on a new basis by taking changes in the scientific field as a starting point. The basic idea of ​​public sociology says that the changed production of knowledge in the social science field constitutes a fundamental interest of the social science in interacting with other social actors in order to oppose the progressive commodification of knowledge. In principle, numerous public sociologies with the most varied of orientations are conceivable. In their tense interrelationships, they differ primarily in the quality of the civil society order that they strive for. According to Dörre, research can best be carried out as an “organic public sociology” that “works in close connection with a visible, dense, active, local public that often functions as a counter-public”. Dörre and his research group tested fields of application of a public sociology in the DFG-Kolleg “Post-growth societies”. Together with students, Dörre has also anchored the concept in academic teaching.

Other areas of work include: theory of capitalism , financial capitalism , social constitution of market relations, spaces of globalization , regional industrial and labor market policies , flexible and precarious employment, occupational choices, Manager - elites , human resources management in small and medium-sized enterprises, innovative corporate culture , innovation through cooperation between science and Economy, participation in companies, industrial relations, trade unions , social disintegration and right-wing populism . Since 2011 he has been working with Hartmut Rosa and Stephan Lessenich in the DFG research group “Landquisition, Acceleration, Activation. Dynamism and (de) stabilization of modern growth societies ”.

Publications (selection)

  • Fight for participation. Work, participation and industrial relations in flexible capitalism , Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-531-13658-5 (also habilitation thesis 2001).
  • together with Robert Castel (ed.): Prekarität, Abstieg, Ausnahme: The Social Question at the Beginning of the 21st Century , Frankfurt / New York: Campus 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-38732-1 .
  • together with Stephan Lessenich and Hartmut Rosa : Sociology - Capitalism - Criticism: A Debate , Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-29523-6 .
  • as Hrsg. et al .: Capitalism theory and work. New approaches to sociological criticism , Frankfurt / New York: Campus 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39657-6 .
  • as Hrsg. et al .: Work in Europe. Market fundamentalism as an acid test , Frankfurt / New York: Campus 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-50178-9 .
  • as Hrsg. et al .: Strike Republic of Germany? The renewal of the trade unions in East and West , Frankfurt / New York: Campus 2016, ISBN 978-3-593-50561-9 .
  • als Hrsg. et al .: Achievement and Justice. The controversial promise of capitalism , Beltz Juventa, Weinheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-7799-3051-8 .
  • as ed. et al .: Capitalism and Labor. Towards Critical Perspectives , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-593-50897-9 .
  • together with Christine Schickert (Ed.): Neosozialismus. Solidarity, democracy and ecology vs. Capitalism , oekom, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-96238-119-6 .
  • als Hrsg. et al .: In the social interest. Potentials of a Public Sociology , VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-96488-032-1 .
  • What's wrong with democracy? A debate with Klaus Dörre, Nancy Fraser, Stephan Lessenich and Hartmut Rosa , edited by Hanna Ketterer and Karina Becker, Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-29862-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c What comes after capitalism? ( Memento from October 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) mdr.de from January 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ Overview of the work at in Dörre, Klaus / Rosa, Hartmut / Becker, Karina / Bose, Sophie / Seyd, Benjamin (eds.): Große Transformation? To the future of modern societies. Special volume of the Berlin Journal for Sociology. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  3. ↑ https://www.clacso.org/
  4. ↑ "Dear Ms. Göring-Eckhardt or Ms. von der Leyen as Gauck", interview with the Jena student magazine unique, March 2012.
  5. ^ Institute Solidarity Modern: Founding members
  6. ↑ Members of the Attac Scientific Advisory Board ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (January 2016)
  7. ↑ Amlinger, Carolin (2017) Klaus Dörre: The new land acquisition. In: Kraemer K., Brugger F. (Ed.) Key works in economic sociology. Economy + society. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, pp. 471-480
  8. ^ Dörre, Klaus (2009): The new land acquisition. Dynamics and Limits of Financial Market Capitalism. In: Dörre, Klaus / Lessenich, Stephan / Rosa, Hartmut: Sociology - Capitalism - Criticism. A debate. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​pp. 21-86.
  9. ^ Dörre, Klaus (2019): Risk Capitalism. Land grab, pincer crisis, sustainability revolution. In: Dörre, Klaus / Rosa, Hartmut / Becker, Karina / Bose, Sophie / Seyd, Benjamin (eds.): Große Transformation? To the future of modern societies. Special volume of the Berlin Journal for Sociology. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. Pp. 3-34.
  10. ^ Marx Karl (1973 [1867]): The capital. Volume 1. The production process of capital. In: MEW 23. Berlin: Dietz. In it: The so-called original accumulation, pp. 741-802.
  11. ↑ Luxemburg, Rosa (1975 [1913]): The accumulation of capital. In: Collected Works Volume 5. Berlin: Dietz, pp. 5-412.
  12. ↑ Arendt (2006 [1951]): Elements and origins of total rule. Anti-Semitism, imperialism, total domination. 11th edition Munich: Piper.
  13. ↑ Harvey, David (2005): The New Imperialism. Hamburg: VSA.
  14. ^ Dörre, Klaus (2009): Prekarität im Finanzmarkt-Kapitalismus. In: Castel, Robert / Dörre, Klaus (2009): Precarity, Descent, Exclusion - The Social Question at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Frankfurt am Main / New York: Campus, pp. 35-64.
  15. ^ Dörre, Klaus (2015): Social Capitalism and Crisis: From the Internal to the External Landnahme. In: Dörre, Klaus / Lessenich, Stephan / Rosa, Hartmut (eds.) (2015): Sociology - Capitalism - Critique. London / New York: Verso, pp. 247-277.
  16. ^ Castel, Robert / Dörre, Klaus (2009): Introduction. In: Castel, Robert / Dörre, Klaus (2009): Precarity, Descent, Exclusion - The Social Question at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Frankfurt am Main / New York: Campus, p. 11-18, here: p. 17
  17. ↑ Dörre, Klaus (2019): Precariousness in the Eurozone: Causes, Effects and Developments. In: Schmalz, Stefan / Sommer, Brandon (Ed.): Confronting Crisis and Precariousness. Organized Labor and Social Unrest in the European Union. London / New York: Rowman and Littlefield. Pp. 15-32
  18. ^ Dörre, Klaus / Scherschel, Karin / Booth, Melanie / Haubner, Tine / Marquardsen, Kai / Schierhorn, Karen (2013): Probation for the lower class? Social consequences of activating labor market policy. Published in the series International Labor Studies - Internationale Arbeitsstudien, Volume 3. Frankfurt am Main / New York: Campus
  19. ^ Dörre, Klaus (2001): The German production model under the pressure of shareholder value. In: Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology 4/2001, pp. 675-704.
  20. ^ Dörre, Klaus (2001): The German production model under the pressure of shareholder value. In: Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology 4/2001, pp. 675-704
  21. ^ Windolf, Paul (2005): What is financial market capitalism? In: Paul Windolf (ed.): Financial market capitalism. Analysis of changes in production regimes. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 20–57
  22. ^ Dörre, Klaus (2012): Crisis of Shareholder Value? Capital market-oriented control as a competitive system. In: Kraemer, Klaus / Nessel, Sebastian (Ed.) (2012): Unleashed Financial Markets. Sociological Analysis of Modern Capitalism. Frankfurt am Main / New York: Campus, pp. 121-143.
  23. ↑ Dörre, Klaus (2015): Beyond Shareholder Value? The Impact of Capital Market - Oriented Business Management on Labor Relations in Germany. In: Weller, Christian E. (Ed.) (2015): Inequality, Uncertainty, and Opportunity. The Varied and Growing Role of Finance Relations. Champaign: Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), Cornell University Press, pp. 85-117
  24. ↑ Dörre, Klaus (2018): Inter-company regulation of labor relations. In: Böhle, Fritz / Voß, G. Günter / Wachtler, Günther (Hrsg.) (2018): Handbuch Arbeitsoziologie. Volume 2: Actors and Institutions. Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag, pp. 619-68
  25. ↑ Brinkmann, Ulrich / Choi, Hae-Lin / Detje, Richard / Dörre, Klaus / Holst, Hajo / Karakayali, Serhat / Schmalstieg, Catharina (2008): Strategic Unionism: From Crisis to Renewal? Outline of a research program. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag
  26. ↑ Urban, Hans-Jürgen (2015). Sociology, the Public, and Unions: Attempt a Forward-Looking Afterword to Michael Burawoy's Public Sociology. In: Burawoy, Michael / Aulenbacher, Brigitte / Dörre, Klaus (eds.). Public Sociology. Public Sociology Against Market Fundamentalism and Global Inequality, pp. 221-242. Weinheim / Basel
  27. ^ Schmalz, Stefan / Dörre, Klaus (eds.) (2013): Comeback of the trade unions. Power resources, innovative practices, international perspectives. Frankfurt am Main / New York: Campus
  28. ↑ Dörre, Klaus (2017): Unions, Power Resources and Public Sociology. A self-experiment. In: Austrian Journal for Sociology. 42 vol., H. 2, pp. 105-128
  29. ↑ Dörre, Klaus (2014): Public Sociology - a concept for work research. In: Wetzel, Detlef / Hofman, Jörg / Urban, Hans-Jürgen (Ed.) (2014): Industrial work and labor policy. Fields of cooperation between science and trade unions. Hamburg: VSA, pp. 85-98
  30. ↑ Burawoy, Michael. 2008. What is to be done? Theses on the Degradation of Social Existence in a Globalizing World. Current Sociology 56 (3): 351-359
  31. ↑ Burawoy, Michael (2015): Public Sociology. Public Sociology against Market Fundamentalism and Global Inequality. Edited by Brigitte Aulenbacher and Klaus Dörre with an afterword by Hans-Jürgen Urban. Weinheim / Basel: Beltz Juventa, p. 56
  32. ↑ Ibid., P. 89.
  33. ↑ Ibid., P. 57.
  34. ↑ Aulenbacher, Brigitte / Burawoy, Michael / Dörre, Klaus / Sittel, Johanna (ed.) (2017): Public Sociology - Science in Dialogue with Society. Frankfurt am Main / New York: Campus, pp. 11-30
  35. ↑ Dörre, Klaus / Haas, Julia / Ibrahim, Walid / Petersen David J. / Richter Kirsten (eds.) (2019): In the interest of society. Potentials of a Public Sociology. Hamburg: VSA Verlag
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SURNAME Dörre, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Cold