Manfred Prisching

Manfred Prisching at a specialist conference of the RPP Institute

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

1. ↑ Named after the economist Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950).
2. ↑ 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