Lothar Peter

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Lothar Peter (* 1942 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ) is a retired professor of sociology at the University of Bremen with a focus on industrial and business sociology and later general sociology.

Life

After graduating from high school in Kassel in 1962, Peter studied sociology , political science and German studies in Marburg and Geneva from 1962 to 1969 . 1966/67 he worked as a teacher at the Goethe Institute in Finland. With a doctoral scholarship from the Mitbestigung Foundation (1969–1971), he was awarded a doctorate in 1971. phil. at the Philipps University of Marburg with summa cum laude with Wolfgang Abendroth and Heinz Maus . 1971/1972 Peter was an assistant at the Institut d`Allemand at the University of Paris III, In 1972 he took over the representation of a vacant professorship at the University of Marburg. In 1973 he was appointed to the University of Bremen as a professor for industrial and business sociology, which was later expanded to include general sociology.

From 1965 to 1970 Peter belonged to the Socialist German Student Union .

In 1992 he received the third Fritz Thyssen Prize for the best social science journal articles in German (Cologne Journal for Sociology and Social Psychology 1990). Peter has been retired since 2005.

Lothar Peter was politically committed to the DKP in the 1970s and 1980s and was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the DKP's own Institute for Marxist Studies and Research from 1983 to 1989 ; he had worked closely with the institute since 1970. In 1991 Peter left the DKP. After 1990 he tried on the scientific level to bring Marxist conceptions and non-Marxist socially critical theories and discourses, in particular the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu , but also aspects of feminism, left communitarianism by Charles Taylor and other theoretical elements closer together.

He was married to Helge-Ulrike Hyams .

Research areas

  • Work, industrial and company sociology
  • Sociological Theory / History of Sociology
  • Sociology in France
  • Labor relations
  • Marxist sociology
  • Sociology of the Unions
  • Sociology of the Plural Actor

Memberships in professional associations / scientific associations

Fonts

Books

  • with Frank Deppe , Hellmuth Lange (Ed.):: The new working class. Technical intelligence and trade unions in organized capitalism. European Publishing House , Frankfurt am Main 1970, ISBN 3-434-10027-X .
  • Class struggles in France today. Marxist sheets, Frankfurt am Main 1972.
  • Literary intelligence and class struggle: “Die Aktion”, 1911–1932. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1972, ISBN 3-7609-0053-4 (also a dissertation under the title The relationship between writers and political engagement using the example of the magazine Die Aktion 1918–1925. Marburg 1971).
  • with Peter Hinrichs: Industrial Peace? Ergonomics, rationalization and the labor movement in the Weimar Republic. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1976, ISBN 3-7609-0265-0 .
  • Between reform policy and crisis. Trade unions in France 1980–1985. Institute for Marxist Studies and Research, Frankfurt am Main 1985, without ISBN.
  • with Johannes M. Becker , Frank Deppe: The French Experiment. Dietz, Berlin / Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-8012-3015-5 .
  • Dogma or science? Marxist-Leninist sociology and the state socialist system in the GDR. IMSF, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-88807-093-7 .
  • with Christoph Butterwegge and the project group “Conversion in Business and Society”: Armaments conversion in the region. Studies on the conversion process in the Lower Weser region. Agenda, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-929440-96-2 .
  • with Stephan Moebius (Ed.): French Sociology of the Present. UVK, Konstanz 2004, ISBN 3-8252-2571-2 .
  • Marx to the university. The "Marburg School". History, problems, actors. PapyRossa, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-89438-546-0 .
  • Georg Lukács. Culture, art and political commitment . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-11457-2 .
  • Controversial modernity. Sociological Discourses and Social Criticism . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-13729-8 .

Journal articles, book chapters (selection)

  • Procurement of legitimation or “power-critical subculture”? Marxist-Leninist sociology and the decline of the system in the GDR . In: Cologne Journal for Sociology and Social Psychology , 42nd year, 1990, no. 4, pp. 611–642.
  • "Everyone somehow to himself"? Problems and opportunities of social interaction in the workplace . In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie , Vol. 22, 1993, No. 6, pp. 416-433.
  • Scientific autonomy and social partiality. Pierre Bourdieu as a committed intellectual . In Effi Böhlke / Rainer Rilling (eds.): Bourdieu und die Linke. Politics - Economy - Culture . Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2007, pp. 17-42, ISBN 978-3-320-02112-2 ).
  • Marx - an apocalyptist of the modern age? In: Alexander K. Nagel u. a. (Ed.): Apocalypse. On the sociology and history of religious crisis rhetoric , Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2008: Campus, pp. 125–149. ISBN 978-3-593-38757-4 .
  • Franco-German sociology transfer . In: lendemains. Ètudes comparées / Comparative French Research , 36th year, 2011, No. 141, pp. 6-17.
  • Why and how does one pursue the history of sociology? In: Christian Dayé u. Stephan Moebius (Ed.): Sociological history. Paths and goals , Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, pp. 112–146, ISBN 978-3-518-29744-5 .
  • French intellectuals on the yellow vests - controversial positions . In: Sozialismus , Volume 46, 2019, Issue 5, pp. 16–22.

literature

  • Stephan Moebius , Gerhard Schäfer (ed.): Sociology as social criticism. Against the loss of a current tradition. Festschrift for Lothar Peter , Hamburg: VSA-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-89965-175-8 .
  • Christian Jakob: Der DDR-Versteher , portrait, in: taz , November 3, 2014, p. 3, online , accessed on June 1, 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lothar Peter (University of Bremen)
  2. ↑ a b c Lothar Peter: Marx an die Uni , 2014, p. 111
  3. ↑ This institute was founded in 1968/1969 and trained mainly French Germanists on the basis of a social-scientific conception of regional studies (civilization allemande). Not only did philologists teach at this institute, but also social scientists.
  4. ↑ Lothar Peter: Marx an die Uni , 2014, p. 110
  5. ↑ Claudia Krieg: Sociology and intellectual engagement , interview, in: Z. Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung , No. 93, March 2013, pages 124-137, accessed on June 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Peter, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt am Wörthersee