Martin Kronauer

Martin Kronauer, 2017

Martin Kronauer (* 1949 in Grötzingen ) is a German sociologist who taught as a professor at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR). His work focuses on the theory and empiricism of social exclusion , urban and social inequality , changes in gainful employment and new social issues .

academic career

Kronauer studied sociology, political science and philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt , where he passed his master's degree in 1981 . From 1983 to 1984 he conducted research at the New School for Social Research in New York City . The doctorate took place in 1988 at the Free University of Berlin . After fifteen years as a research assistant and project manager at the Sociological Research Institute (SOFI) at the Georg-August University of Göttingen , where he also received his habilitation in 2001 , and stations as a visiting scientist and substitute professor, Kronauer became professor of social science in 2002 with a focus on structural change and the welfare state in international perspective at the Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft in Berlin, which was converted into the HWR in 2009.

Kronauer was a Fellow of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst , a visiting professor at the University of Göttingen and the University of Vienna and worked together with the German Institute for Adult Education in Bonn.

Fonts (selection)

• In the shadow of the working society. Unemployed people and the dynamic of social exclusion , Frankfurt / Main, New York: Campus-Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-593-34962-0 (together with Berthold Vogel and Frank Gerlach)
• Exclusion. The endangerment of the social in highly developed capitalism , Frankfurt / Main, New York: Campus-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-593-37049-2 (also habilitation thesis), second updated and expanded edition 2010
• On the outskirts of the cities. Poverty and Exclusion , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​2004, ISBN 3-518-12252-5 (editor with Hartmut Häußermann and Walter Siebel )
• Flexicurity . The search for security in flexibility , Berlin: Edition Sigma, 2005, ISBN 3-89404-996-0 (editor with Gudrun Linne)
• Inclusion and training. Reflections on Social Participation in the Present , Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7639-1964-2 (editor)
• Polarized cities. Social inequality as a challenge for urban politics , Frankfurt / Main, New York: Campus Verlag, 2013. ISBN 978-3-593-39974-4 (editor with Walter Siebel).

Web links

• Martin Kronauer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law