Manfred Prisching
Manfred Prisching (born December 12, 1950 in Bruck an der Mur ) is an Austrian sociologist .
Live and act
Prisching, a representative of the liberal Catholic milieu in Styria, first studied law (Dr. jur. 1974) and economics (Mag. Rer. Soc. Oec. 1977). He then worked as a university assistant at the institutes for legal philosophy, for economics and economic policy and for sociology at the University of Graz . In 1985 he completed his habilitation with a large-scale thesis on crises in sociology and has been a lecturer at this university since then, and since 1994 professor.
He worked as a visiting professor at the universities of Salzburg , Innsbruck and Linz . In 1995/96 he was a Schumpeter visiting professor at Harvard University . In 2005/06 he taught at the Universities of New Orleans, Little Rock and Las Vegas and was an eyewitness to the New Orleans flood disaster . 1997–2001 he was the scientific director of Technikum Joanneum GmbH (Styrian universities of applied sciences). Prisching is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and editor of the “Social Ethics” series of the Austrian Research Foundation at Passagen Verlag .
Honors
- 1985 Cardinal Innitzer Prize for the Humanities
- 1994 Josef Krainer Research Prize
- 1996 Wilfried Haslauer Research Prize for Contemporary History
- 2019 Decoration of Honor of the State of Styria for Science, Research and Art
Fonts (selection)
- together with Clemens Albrecht , Andreas Göbel , Justin Stagl and Michel Maffesoli, ed. of the journal Sociologia Internationalis , published by Duncker & Humblot Verlag Berlin, European journal for cultural research (SOCINT), ISSN 0038-0164
- Crises. A sociological analysis , Vienna-Cologne-Graz 1986.
- Unemployment protest and resignation in the economic crisis , Frankfurt-New York 1988.
- Sociology. Topics, theories, perspectives , Vienna-Cologne-Graz 1995.
- The social partnership. Model of the past or model for Europe? , Vienna 1996.
- Pictures of the welfare state , Marburg 1996.
- The McGesellschaft , Graz 1998.
- Good bye New Orleans , Graz 2006.
- The two-dimensional society , Wiesbaden 2006.
- Educational ideologies , Wiesbaden 2008.
- The self, the mask, the bluff: On the staging of oneself , Vienna 2009.
- Time diagnosis: methods, models, motives (standards of standardized and non-standardized social research), Weinheim 2018.
- Bluff People: Self-Staging in Late Modernism , Weinheim 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Named after the economist Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950).
- ↑ Decoration of honor of the State of Styria for science, research and art presented. In: kommunikation.steiermark.at. November 18, 2019, accessed November 21, 2019 .
Web links
- Lecture "I, I, I: - about the staging of oneself" at the symposium Self-Realization & Obedience on December 7th, 2012. ( Video )
- Literature by and about Manfred Prisching in the catalog of the German National Library
- Manfred Prisching's website
- Short bio plus list of works
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Prisching, Manfred |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sociologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1950 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bruck an der Mur |