Nina Degele

Nina Degele (born July 29, 1963 in Ulm ) is a German sociologist and university professor .

Life

From 1982 to 1989 Nina Degele studied Sinology , Sociology , Political Science , Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Munich and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From 1992 to 1998 she worked as a research assistant and assistant at the Institute for Sociology there. In 1993 she did her doctorate at the Faculty of Social Sciences on the subject of the overwhelmed computer. The sociology of human and artificial intelligence , 1998 habilitation them with the study Informed knowledge. A sociology of knowledge of the computerized society .

In 1998 Nina Degele was visiting professor at the University of Minnesota and in 1999 she represented the C-4 chair for "General Sociology / Social Analysis" at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Osnabrück , and in 2000 the C-3 chair for sociology and empirical gender research at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Freiburg . She took over this professorship in 2001. Since 2002 she has been the managing director of the Institute for Sociology.

The thematic focus of her work lies in the sociology of knowledge and technology , modernization theory , gender and queer studies and qualitative methodology .

Memberships

• since 1993 German Society for Sociology (DGS) and Society for Science and Technology Research (GWTF)
• since 1994 Science and Technology Research Section of the DGS
• since 1994 Institute for Social Science Information and Research e. V. (ISIFO)
• since 1995 Society for Social Studies of Sciences (4S)
• since 1999 German University Association (DHV)
• since 1999 research institute for complex systems in the human sciences V.
• since 2000 Center for Anthropology and Gender Studies (ZAG) at the University of Freiburg
• since 2001 section women and gender studies of the DGS

Fonts (selection)

• 1994: The overwhelmed computer. On the sociology of human and artificial intelligence. Ffm: Campus, ISBN 3-593-35082-3 .
• 2000: Informed knowledge. A sociology of knowledge of the computerized society. Ffm: Campus.
• 2001: Sociological Consulting Research. (Ed. together with Tanja Münch / Hans Pongratz / Nicole Saam ). Opladen: Leske + Budrich.
• 2002: Introduction to the sociology of technology. Munich: Fink (UTB).
• 2004: “Make yourself beautiful.” On the sociology of gender and beauty practices. Opladen: VS-Verlag.
• 2005: Modernization Theory. An introduction (together with Christian Dries). Munich: Fink (UTB).
• Gender / Queer Studies: An Introduction . Fink Verlag , Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-2986-3 ( reading sample [PDF; 683 kB ; accessed on January 6, 2017]).
• 2010: Gendered Bodies in Motion (edited together with Sigrid Schmitz, Marion Mangelsdorf and Elke Gramespacher) Opladen: Budrich UniPress, ISBN 978-3-940755-57-5 .
• 2011: Straight, white and male? Football is much more! A study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on homophobia, racism and sexism in football (PDF; 982 kB) (together with Caroline Janz), Berlin.

Web links

• Literature by and about Nina Degele in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personal data - Institute for Sociology. In: www.soziologie.uni-freiburg.de. Retrieved May 13, 2016 .