Klaus Peter Japp

Klaus Peter Japp (* 1947 ) is Professor of Political Communication and Sociology of Risk at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University . He has been retired since 2012.

Japp studied sociology in Frankfurt and received his doctorate in 1975 on crisis theories and conflict potentials . After working as a research assistant at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center , he became a research assistant at Bielefeld University in 1977, where he was involved in the DFG research project 'Development Dynamics of the Service Sector'. In December 1983 Japp completed his habilitation at Bielefeld University on the Organizability of Psycho-Social Services: Contradictions and Ways Out . After a substitute for a professor in Osnabrück and four years as a private lecturer, he became a full professor at the Faculty of Sociology in Bielefeld in 1989. Japp had several residencies at the University of California at Berkeley.

Japps research focuses on sociological systems theory, political communication and social movements. His sociological research follows the tradition of Niklas Luhmann's social theory. The focus is on terrorism research and the sociology of religion.

Publications

• Prevention and environmental liability. On the sociology of a modern form of liability . German Univ.-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-8244-4440-2 (together with Uwe Hapke)
• Risk . Transcript, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-933127-12-2
• Sociological Risk Theory. Functional differentiation, politicization and reflection . Juventa, Weinheim / Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7799-0392-X
• How mental health services are organized. Contradictions and ways out . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main / New York 1986, ISBN 3-593-33581-6

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1. ^ CV Klaus Peter Japp [1]

Web links

• Internet presence at Bielefeld University
• Literature by and about Klaus Peter Japp in the catalog of the German National Library