Michael Zöller
Michael Zöller (born May 27, 1946 in Würzburg ) is a German sociologist .
Life
Zöller first completed a journalistic training and then studied sociology , political science , history and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt am Main , the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich . In 1973 he was at the Philosophical Faculty of the LMU Munich with the dissertation The Inability to Politics. Concept of politics and understanding of science from Humboldt to Habermas to Dr. phil. PhD.
He was a full professor of political sociology at the University of Bayreuth and headed the America Research Center there. He is also chairman of the Council on Public Policy . He has also worked at the University of Notre Dame , the University of Chicago , Stanford University , the International Center of Economic Research in Turin and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He is currently a lecturer at the Munich School of Politics and visiting professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. His research interests are political economy , the history of ideas , the sociology of religion and the USA . He published several books and articles a. a. in the dictionary of sociology (keyword political sociology ) and in the classics of political thought (keyword Max Weber ).
From 1971 to 1976 he was chairman of the federal freedom of science . He was treasurer of the conservative association from 1978 to 1988. In 1974 he became a member of the German Education Council . Zöller is a board member of the Mont Pelerin Society .
He is married and has two daughters.
Awards
- 1973: Hans Constantin Paulssen Prize from Südwestmetall
- 1996: Alois Mertes Prize from the German Historical Institute in Washington
Fonts (selection)
- Incapacity for politics. Concept of politics and understanding of science from Humboldt to Habermas (= Studies in Social Science . Volume 34). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1975, ISBN 3-531-11318-6 .
- The overwhelmed state. Plea for a free regulatory policy using the example of education policy (= Bonn aktuell . 52). Verlag Bonn Aktuell, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-87959-073-7 .
- Welfare - the American welfare system (= Kleine Reihe . Issue 28). Bachem, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7616-0654-0 .
- (Ed.): Education as a public good? University and student finance in an international comparison . Verlag Bonn Aktuell, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-87959-211-X .
- Mass society and mass communication - example America (= Small series of the Walter Raymond Foundation . Issue 36). Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0782-2 .
- The Procrustes System. Organized pluralism as an illusion of certainty . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1988, ISBN 3-531-11938-9 .
- (Ed.): European integration as a challenge to culture. Pluralism of cultures or unity of bureaucracies? (= Publications of the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Foundation . Volume 35). Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Essen 1992, ISBN 3-89275-907-3 .
- Washington and Rome. Catholicism in American culture (= social orientation . Volume 9). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-428-08322-9 .
- (Ed.): Information society - from organized security to unexpected independence? (= Publications of the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Foundation . Volume 49). Bachem, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7616-1356-3 .
literature
- Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2002, ISBN 3-7950-2034-4 , p. 1606.
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Zöller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Michael Zöller in the German Digital Library
- Search for "Michael Zöller" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Michael Zöller in the social science portal Sowiport
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zöller, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |