Matthias Gross

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Matthias Groß (born March 29, 1969 in Nastätten ) is a German sociologist. He is Professor of Environmental Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in joint appointment with the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ .

biography

After graduating from the Staatlich Neusprachlichen (today Marion-Dönhoff-) Gymnasium in Lahnstein , Groß did his community service at the University Hospital Bonn and began studying philosophy at the University of Bonn . After working in environmental protection projects in Australia, Groß studied sociology in Bielefeld from 1992 to 1998, and from 1995 to 1996 in Arcata (California). Between 1999 and 2002 he was a DFG scholarship holder in the graduate college "Genesis, Structures and Consequences of Science and Technology" at the Institute for Science and Technology Research (IWT) at Bielefeld University , where he obtained his doctorate in 2001 under Wolfgang Krohn . From 2002 to 2005 co-head of the junior research group project “ Real Experiments ” of the Volkswagen Foundation at the IWT in Bielefeld. Between 2005 and 2013 he was a research assistant at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig, since 2008 deputy and since 2014 head of the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at the UFZ. In 2008, Groß completed his habilitation in sociology at the Martin Luther University in Halle (re - habilitation ). Research stays and visiting professorships led him a. a. to the University of Wisconsin – Madison , USA, the Loyola University Chicago and the MLU Halle. Since 2013 he has been professor of environmental sociology at the Institute for Sociology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

His sociological focus is on cultural and environmental sociology , historical sociology, and science and technology research . His current research topics include real experimental processes in science and society, the relationship between calculable risk and ignorance , technology development in the application context and the role of civil society in the establishment of renewable energy systems. In 2013 he won the Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence in Cultural Sociology of the British Sociological Association and in July 2018 the Frederick H. Buttel Prize of the Research Committee Environment & Society (RC24) of the International Sociological Association (ISA). He is co-founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal Nature + Culture .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Oxford Handbook of Energy and Society . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018 (Ed. With Debra J. Davidson).
  • Green European: Environmental Behavior and Attitudes in Europe in a Historical and Cross-Cultural Comparative Perspective . London: Routledge, 2017 (Ed. Together with Audrone Telesiene).
  • Experimental society: The experiment as a knowledge-based dispositive . Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2017 (Ed. Together with Stefan Böschen and Wolfgang Krohn).
  • Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies . London: Routledge, 2015 (Ed. With Linsey McGoey).
  • Renewable Energies . London: Routledge, 2015 (Key Ideas Series; together with Rüdiger Mautz).
  • Experimental ignorance: environmental innovations and the limits of socio-ecological resilience . Bielefeld: Transcript, 2014 (Science Studies series).
  • Handbook of environmental sociology . Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2011 (Ed.).
  • Ignorance and Surprise: Science, Society, and Ecological Design . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010 (Inside Technology Series).
  • Environmental Sociology: European Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Challenges . Dordrecht: Springer, 2010 (Ed. Together with Harald Heinrichs).
  • Nature . Bielefeld: Transcript, 2006 (Insight series: Topics of Sociology).
  • Real experiments: ecological design processes in the knowledge society . Bielefeld: Transcript, 2005 (Science Studies series; together with Holger Hoffmann-Riem and Wolfgang Krohn).
  • Inventing Nature: Ecological Restoration by Public Experiments . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003.
  • The Nature of Society: A History of Environmental Sociology . Weinheim: Juventa Verlag, 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Jena. Retrieved October 17, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Institute for Science and Technology Research (IWT) ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ The unease lurks underground: Prof. Dr. Matthias Groß holds the chair for environmental sociology. Retrieved May 30, 2014 .
  4. ↑ price side of the British Sociological Association (archive). Archived from the original on October 21, 2014 ; Retrieved April 8, 2014 .
  5. ^ Frederick H. Buttel International Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Environmental Sociology. Retrieved August 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Great, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Nasta