Michael Opielka

Michael Opielka, 2009

Michael Opielka (* 1956 ) is a German social scientist and university professor specializing in sociology , social ecology and social policy . Opielka teaches as a professor of social policy at the Ernst Abbe University of Jena and as a private lecturer in sociology at the University of Hamburg . He heads the Institute for Social Ecology in Siegburg.

Life

In 1983 Opielka graduated from the University of Tübingen with a degree in educational science .

In the 1980s Opielka was a socio-political pioneer of the Greens , among other things from 1983 to 1987 in the function of a scientific adviser to the parliamentary group.

In 1996 he received his doctorate in sociology from the Humboldt University in Berlin and in 2007 also completed his habilitation in sociology at the University of Hamburg .

From 1997 to 2000 he was rector of the Alanus University for Art and Society , from 1995 to 1996 department head at the State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg . As a visiting scholar he conducted research in 1990/91 at the Department of Sociology and in 2004/05 at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley .

Since 2000 he has been a professor of social policy at the Ernst Abbe University of Jena . He was a lecturer in sociology at the University of Bonn .

From August 2012 to June 2016 he was Scientific Director and Managing Director of the Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT) in Berlin.

His main research interests are social policy, the sociology of religion and knowledge, family research, sociological theory and cultural theory. He contributes to the social reform discussion with numerous books and articles. He advocates a guaranteed basic income . He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Basic Income Network , Basic Income Earth Network - Germany ( BIEN ).

Opielka lives in Siegburg .

Fonts (selection)

• Social sustainability as a value problem. In: Wolfgang George (Ed.): Laudato Si '. Scientists respond to Pope Francis' encyclical. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8379-2642-2 , pp. 175-188.
• Values ​​in the welfare state. VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-531-15402-2 .
• with Matthias Müller, Tim Bendixen and Jesco Kreft: Basic income and value orientations. An empirical analysis. VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16795-4 (2nd, corrected edition. Ibid 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17341-2 ).
• with Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn : The solidarity citizens' money. Financial and social policy analysis of a reform concept. In: Michael Borchard (ed.): The solidarity citizen money. Analysis of a reform idea. Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8282-0393-8 , pp. 13-141.
• Culture versus religion? Sociological analyzes of modern value conflicts. Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-393-8 .
• as editor: Education reform as social reform. On the connection between education and social policy. VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14853-2 .
• Community in society. Sociology after Hegel and Parsons. VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-14225-9 (2nd, revised edition, ibid 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-34225-2 ).
• as editor: Grundrente in Deutschland. Social policy analyzes (= perspectives of social policy. 6). VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4049-5 .
• Social policy. Basics and comparative perspectives (= rororo. 55662). Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-55662-6 (2nd, revised edition. Ibid 2008, ISBN 978-3-499-55662-3 ).
• with Joachim Braun: Self-help promotion through self-help contact points. Final report of the accompanying research on the model program “Information and support centers for self-help groups” (= Federal Ministry for Family and Seniors. Series of publications. 14). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1992, ISBN 3-17-012413-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vita of Prof. Dr. habil. Michael Opielka, Dipl.-Päd.
2. ↑ Basic Income Network, Scientific Advisory Board , as of December 31, 2012
3. ↑ General-Anzeiger of September 3, 2018: Former Alanus Rector runs Siegburger think tank. Accessed on September 22, 2018

Web links

Commons : Michael Opielka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Michael Opielka in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Michael Opielka at the Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena
• ZDF night studio on basic income: Michael Opielka, Götz Werner, Adrienne Göhler, Volker Panzer
• Institute for Social Ecology