Michaela Pfadenhauer

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Michaela Pfadenhauer (* 1968 in Nuremberg ) is a German sociologist and university professor at the University of Vienna .

Pfadenhauer studied sociology and political science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich from 1987 to 1994 and graduated with a diploma in political science. From 1995 to 1997 she worked as a research assistant for Ulrich Beck at the University of Munich , then from 1997 to 2002 with Ronald Hitzler at the University of Dortmund and did her doctorate in 2002 with Ulrich Beck and Gerd Naegele on the subject of staging professionalism . After a short duration of action as an assistant at the University of St. Gallen in Peter Gross Michaela path Hauer 2007-2014 professor of sociology at was Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . Since 2014 she has been a university professor for sociology with a research focus on culture and knowledge at the University of Vienna.

Her main areas of work are: sociology of knowledge and communicative constructivism, mediatization and social robotics, competence research in different areas of activity; Professional sociology and methods of interpretative social research.

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