Laszlo A. Vaskovics

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Laszlo Arpad Vaskovics (born June 19, 1936 in Trstená na Ostrove ) is a Hungarian - German sociologist .

Life

Vaskovics attended elementary and middle school in Hungary and studied sociology, philosophy and psychology at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1962 . In 1969 he completed his habilitation at the University of Linz , followed by teaching activities there, at the University of Trier and at the University of Bamberg . There he held the Chair of Sociology I from 1976 until his retirement in 2002. His other functions at the University of Bamberg included founding dean of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Vice President (1980-1984), head of the Social Science Research Center (1976-2001 ) and Director of the State Institute for Family Research (1996–2003). Since 1991 he has been an honorary doctor and since 2003 visiting professor at the Corvinus University Budapest . Since 1998 he has been a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences .

According to its own information, Vaskovics published 132 books, 14 research reports, over 100 essays and edited 12 books. The main topics were family, youth, old age, socialization , social inequality , poverty , religion and demography . From 1996 to 2003 Vaskovics headed the State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg. It is the only social science research institute in Germany that is exclusively dedicated to family research. It examines the living conditions of families and their changes.

Vaskovics is a keen runner. Shortly before his 80th birthday, he completed the Vienna Marathon .

Works (selection)

  • Family and religious socialization. An empirical-sociological study to research the family as a socialization vehicle for value-oriented behavior , Vienna 1970
  • Segregated poverty. Formation of marginalized groups through living in urban emergency shelters , Frankfurt / New York 1976
  • with the collaboration of Hanspeter Buba, Daniela Watzinger, Werner Weins: Social integration of marginalized groups through housing measures . Series of publications by the Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development (03.081), Bonn 1980
  • with Werner Weins: Formation of marginalized groups in rural areas / poverty and homelessness . Series of publications by the Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health, Volume 146, Stuttgart a. a. 1983, ISBN 3-17-008868-8
  • (Ed., Together with Karl-Dieter Keim ): Ways to social planning. Experiences and opportunities in the Federal Republic of Germany , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Opladen 1985
  • (Ed., Together with Rainer K. Silbereisen and IZ Sozialwissenschaften): Social research in the GDR , special volume. Research project documentation "Family and Youth", Bonn / Berlin 1993
  • with Manfred Garhammer: Soziologie familialer Lebenswelten , (special edition 3 Sociological Review, vol. 17), Oldenburg Verlag, Munich 1994
  • with Marina Rupp : partnership careers. Development paths of non-marital partnerships , Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1995
  • with Marina Rupp and Barbara Hofmann: Life courses in the modern age 1: Unmarried partnerships . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1997
  • (Ed., Together with Hanspeter Buba): Discrimination against same-sex oriented people and couples. Study on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Justice (series: Rechtsstatsachenforschung) Bundesanzeiger-Verlag, Cologne 2001
  • Social disintegration and family fates. Refugee and displaced families of the Second World War . IUDICUM, Munich 2002.
  • (Ed., Together with Dieter Schwab): Pluralization of parenthood and childhood. Family law, sociology and psychology in dialogue , Barbara Budrich Verlag, Opladen & Farmington Hills 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://opac-nevter.pim.hu/record/-/record/PIM178802
  2. http://dr.vaskovics.de
  3. https://www.ifb.bayern.de/ueber/struktur/index.php
  4. https://www.ottfried.de/studieren/543-laeuferinnen-und-laeufer-beim-6-unilauf
  5. https://issuu.com/vienna_city_marathon/docs/vcm-panoramaresult2016screen21062