Max Miller (sociologist)
Max Miller (born January 2, 1944 ) is a German sociologist. From 1992 until his retirement in 2009, he held the chair for sociological theories at the University of Hamburg . Since 2012 he has been an honorary professor at the Philosophical Faculty of Leibniz Universität Hannover , and since 2016 senior professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . His current focus in teaching and research are modern social theories , theories of collective (discursive, systemic) learning and theories of social evolution .
Life
After studying philosophy and German studies (state examination) and a second degree in sociology and psychology in Freiburg, Berlin, Münster and Frankfurt, he was initially a research assistant (linguistics) at the University of Frankfurt am Main and then for almost 10 years as an academic. Employee at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin) and at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen , then at the Max Planck Institute for research into the living conditions of the scientific and technical world in Starnberg and at the Max Planck Institute for the Social Sciences in Munich. Between 1978 and 1983 he worked for Jürgen Habermas at the two last-mentioned Max Planck Institutes.
Between 1985 and 1992 he was a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.
From 1995 to 2000 he was the spokesman for the section 'Sociological Theories' of the German Society for Sociology (DGS).
His list of publications includes monographs, articles in anthologies and journal articles in the fields of early childhood language development , argumentation and moral development in children and adolescents, and discursive and systemic learning at the level of social groups, organizations and societies. Further publications refer to current theoretical paradigms in sociology (especially systems theory , theory of rational decision , cultural theories and critical theory ) and to theories of capitalism in the age of globalization .
Publications (selection)
- The Logic of Language Development in Early Childhood , Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer Verlag 1979 (Springer Series in Language and Communication 3).
- Collective learning processes - studies on the foundation of a sociological learning theory , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag 1986.
- Modernity and barbarism. Sociological diagnosis of the times at the end of the 20th century , edition and introduction, co-author: Hans-Georg Soeffner , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag 1996.
- (Ed. And introduction): Worlds of Capitalism. Institutions, Governance, and Economic Change in the Era of Globalization , London / New York: Routledge 2005 (Series: Governance and Change in the Global Era).
- Dissent. On the theory of discursive and systemic learning , Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2006.
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Miller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Max Miller at the University of Hamburg
- Max Miller's private website
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| SURNAME | Miller, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1944 |