Klaus Eder (sociologist)

Klaus Eder (born September 2, 1946 in Burgoberbach ) is a German sociologist .

From 1989 to 1994 Eder was Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute in Florence , and since 1994 he has been Professor of Sociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Faculty of Comparative Structural Analysis). Eder was co-editor of the Berlin Journal for Sociology until 2018 .

Eder's main research interests are the comparative analysis of the social structure of the process of Europeanization and “the public sphere and democracy in the European Union ”.

Hans-Jörg Trenz is one of his most important students .

Fonts (selection)

• The emergence of state-organized societies. A contribution to a theory of social evolution. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-518-06028-7 (also: Konstanz, University, dissertation, 1976).
• History as a learning process? On the pathogenesis of political modernity in Germany. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-57726-3 (At the same time: Düsseldorf, University, habilitation paper).
• The socialization of nature. Studies on the social evolution of practical reason (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft 714). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1988. ISBN 3-518-28314-6 (In English: The social construction of nature. A sociology of ecological enlightenment. Sage Publications, London et al. 1996, ISBN 0-8039-7849-9 ).
• Cultural identity between tradition and utopia. Social movements as a place of social learning processes (= European library of intercultural studies. Vol. 6). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2000, ISBN 3-593-36243-0 .
• with Valentin Rauer and Oliver Schmidtke: The enclosure of the other. Turkish, Polish and Russian-German immigrants in Germany. VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-14302-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Eder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Employee site at the Humboldt University Berlin