Maurizio Bach

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Maurizio Bach (born April 6, 1953 in Trento , Italy ) is a German sociologist .

Maurizio Bach studied political science and sociology at the University of Hanover , among others with Oskar Negt and Peter Brückner . He received his doctorate with the work The charismatic leader dictatorships. Third Reich and Italian fascism compared their structures of rule at the European University Institute in Florence , where he also worked as a research attaché (1987–1989). He then moved to the Institute for Sociology at the University of Heidelberg as a research assistant to M. Rainer Lepsius . In 1996 he completed his habilitation at the University of Konstanz with the text Beyond the Rational Action. Vilfredo Paretos foundations of a sociological theory of action . From 2000 until his retirement in April 2019, Bach taught sociology at the University of Passau . In April 2020, Bach was appointed senior professor of sociology at the European University of Flensburg.

He was visiting professor in the USA ( Western Michigan University ), Zurich , Trento , Brazil ( Juiz de Fora ; Sao Paulo, USP; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and Rome ( La Sapienza ). He is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Politik and from 2008 to 2014 he was the section spokesman of the German Society for Sociology, Section European Sociology (formerly Section East-Central European Sociology ).

His focus areas are: political sociology , sociology of Europe, sociology of European integration, comparative historical-sociological research on fascism, classics of sociology (especially Vilfredo Pareto and Max Weber ) and general social theory.

Bach has been co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Politik since 2008 .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • together with Stefan Breuer : Fascism as a movement and a regime. Italy and Germany in comparison. VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17369-6 .
  • Introduction to social theory. Stutz, Passau 2009, ISBN 978-3-88849-401-7 .
  • Europe without society. Political Sociology of European Integration. VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-531-16957-6 .
  • Beyond rational action. On the sociology of Vilfredo Paretos. VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-14220-8 .
  • The Europeanization of national societies (= Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology. Vol. 40). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 2000, ISBN 3-531-13591-0 .
  • The bureaucratization of Europe. Administrative elites, experts and political legitimation in the European Union. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-593-35743-7 .
  • The charismatic dictatorships of the Führer. Third Reich and Italian fascism in comparison of their structures of rule (= Nomos-Universitätsschriften. Vol. 9). Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2106-7 .

Editorships

  • with Barbara Hönig: European Sociology. Handbook for Science and Studies, Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 978-3-8487-2456-7 .
  • The disempowered Leviathan. Is the sovereign state dissolving? (= Journal for Politics. Vol. 5). Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 3-8329-7985-9 .
  • with Anton Sterbling: Social inequality in the enlarged European Union (= contributions to Eastern European research. Vol. 14). Krämer Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 3-89622-088-8 .
  • with Christian Lahusen and Georg Vobruba : Europe in Motion. Social Dynamics and Political Institutions in an Enlarging Europe. edition sigma, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89404-536-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bach, Maurizio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Trento , Italy