Paul Drechsel

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Paul Drechsel (born October 31, 1944 in Saalfeld / Saale ) is a German cultural scientist .

Life

Paul Drechsel is a physicist and professor of ethnology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . His main focus areas are quantum theory, globalization , inter- and transcultural management, ethnic and nationalist mobilization, economic and socio-political transformation processes, intercultural communication, cognitive and socio-economic evolution, ethnolinguistics, diversity management, southern Africa, ethnicity, cultural , scientific and systems theory . Together with Henk Pauw , he devised the DP curve with which the evolution of societies can be recorded.

Paul Drechsel was born as the second son of the chemical technician Karl Drechsel and Elisabeth Drechsel, born. Seiler was born. He attended the Frankfurt-Höchst primary school from 1951–53, the Marienhausen boarding school near Rüdesheim from 1953–57 and the Marianum boarding school near Fulda from 1957–61 . Then he trained as a chemical laboratory technician. In second-chance education he got in 1968, the High School for order in April 1968 with the physics and mathematics study to begin. In 1973 he switched to ethnology , sociology and African studies . Drechsel obtained his doctorate in 1978. phil. and completed his habilitation in 1989, both in Mainz. Since 1979 he has been teaching at the Institute for Ethnology and African Studies . Research stays of several years led him to Greece , Zimbabwe and South Africa , where he was an election observer in April 1994 .

Fonts

  • Problems of a system-theoretical representation of culture . Dissertation, Mainz 1978
  • Traditional logic and quantum logic . Mainz 1979
  • Relationship and form of marriage . In: The overview . Volume 2, 1982
  • Suggestions for the construction of a “cultural theory” and what one could understand by a “cultural interpretation” . In: Ernst Wilhelm Müller (ed.): Ethnology as social science . Opladen, 1984, pp. 44-84, ISBN 3-531-11726-2
  • Sexual maturity and legitimacy for procreation among the Australian natives . In: Ernst Wilhelm Müller: Sexual maturity and legitimation for procreation . Alber, Freiburg (Breisgau) [u. a.] 1985, pp. 717-758, ISBN 3-495-47443-9
  • with Bettina Schmidt: Transition to democracy in Africa. Comments and summary of the conference "Transition to democracy in Africa". Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Königswinter, September 10 to 12, 1993 . In: International Africa Forum . Volume 29, 1993, pp. 389-401
  • Social structure and communicative action. Reflections on a post-modern ethno-sociology . Lit, Münster and Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-89473-799-9 (= Political Sociology, Volume 7; also habilitation thesis 1989)
  • with Bettina Schmidt: South Africa. Chances for a pluralistic social order . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1995, ISBN 3-531-12735-7
  • Interculturality. Basic problems of the cultural encounter . Mainz 1998
  • with Bettina Schmidt: Rwanda in the context of southern Africa. Sociopolitical and economic aspects . In: International Africa Forum . Volume 35, 1999, pp. 375-381
  • with Bettina Schmidt and Bernhard Gölz: Culture in the Age of Globalization. From identity to differences . Iko-Verlag for Intercultural Communication, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-88939-516-3
  • with Henk Pauw: Current World Bank reports and the Millennium Development Goals “Integrated Management of Development Cooperation”. Case study South Africa. In: International Africa Forum . Volume 39, 2003, pp. 253-268

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DP curve
personal data
SURNAME Drechsel, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Saalfeld / Saale